Robert Sapolsky | Father-Offspring Interviews

Episode 122 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the potential danger that is mirror cells, and whether other apes laugh like we do.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Mirror Cells)
00:16:58 Question 2 Part 1 (Ape Laughter)

Episode 121 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses the recent craze that is peptides and whether they really help strength and muscle growth, and how one trains their brain for a Spelling Bee, along with how a trend in Bees reflects a larger pattern of demographics in the U.S.

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00:00 Intro and Corrections
00:01:20 Question 1 (Peptides and muscle growth)
00:16:02 Question 2 Part 1 (Training for Spelling Bees)
00:25:52 Question 2 Part 2 (Bees and Demographic trends)

Episode 120 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include how the amygdala processes “us” and “them” in biracial individuals, as well as in other cases of intersectional identities, and what the mysterious eye floaters we all see really are.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Biracial individuals and amygdala categorization)
00:28:32 Question 2 (Eye floaters)

Episode 119 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of whether humans will evolve into different subspecies, inter- versus intra- genetic similarities of species, and why so many people are so attracted to bad boys.

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 (Will humans speciate?)
00:13:20 Question 2 (“Shared” genes)
00:20:27 Question 3 (The appeal of bad boys)

Episode 118 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include moral scrupulosity OCD and whether it may be rooted in intergenerational trauma, with the the Armenian Genocide as an example lens, and the (slightly terrifying) case of a snake and fish cooperative hunting technique.  

BBC Krait and Trevally Clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO07dZWNtcc

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00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Question 1 Part 1 (Moral scrupulosity OCD)
00:08:21 Q1 Part 2 (Armenian Genocide)
00:17:43 Q1 Part 3 (Intergenerational Trauma)
00:27:39 Question 2 (Snake and Fish Cooperative Hunting)